Design with the Desert - Richard Malloy, John Brock, Anthony Floyd, Margaret Livingston & Robert H. Webb

Design with the Desert

By Richard Malloy, John Brock, Anthony Floyd, Margaret Livingston & Robert H. Webb

  • Release Date: 2016-04-19
  • Genre: Economics

Description

Typical development in the American Southwest often resulted in scraping the desert lands of the ancient living landscape, to be replaced with one that is human-made and dependent on a large consumption of energy and natural resources. This transdisciplinary book explores the natural and built environment of this desert region and introduces development tools for shaping its future in a more sustainable way. It offers valuable insights to help promote ecological balance between nature and the built environment in the American Southwest-and in other ecologically fragile regions around the world.

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